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of Biological Survey, with a few omissions and a 

 change in the order. These plants are arranged in 

 the order in which the fruit begins to ripen, so that 

 from a study of this table one may select shrubs 

 which will furnish the birds with a succession of 

 food from spring through summer and fall, and even 

 through winter, as the fruit of several shrubs re- 

 mains during most of the winter season. The period 

 of the fruiting-season is taken from the earliest and 

 latest dates recorded for New York and New Eng- 

 land, so that an individual plant would not remain 

 in fruit during all of this period. 



Mr. Frederic H. Kennard, in Baynes's "Our Wild 

 Bird Guests," suggests the following species as 

 among the best for providing birds with a con- 

 tinuous supply of food throughout the year : — 



Trees 



' White mulberry 

 Red mulberry 

 Summer ■{ Bird cherry {Prunus 

 pennsylvanica) 



' Flowering dogwood 

 White thorn 

 Autumn ■< Bird cherry {Prunus 

 serotina) 



'Gray birch 

 Cockspur thorn 

 ^. . J European mountain- 

 ash 

 Siberian crab-apple 



Shrubs 



Shad-bush 

 Blue cornel 

 Tartarian honey- 

 suckle 

 Red-berried elder 



Silky cornel 

 Gray cornel 

 Arrowwood 

 Withe-rod 

 Common elder 



Barberry 

 Black alder 

 Common privet 

 Buckthorn 

 Sheep-berry 

 Black haw 



Vines 



Frost grape 



Virginia creeper 

 Summer grape 



